In our business and personal lives, the subject of ‘power’ has historically been viewed as a challenge focused primarily on measured and incremental changes in technology, government and consumer…
The longest United Nations climate talks on record have finally ended in Madrid with a compromise deal.
Exhausted delegates reached agreement on the key question of increasing the global response to…
The General Election is a huge opportunity for a new government to make a transformative difference to climate change through investment in renewables, Juliet Davenport, chief executive and founder…
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has recently partnered with the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) to open a USD 120 million credit line. It is intended to finance…
Eskom is too big to fail. The fate of the power utility and the fate of this country are one and the same. And right now plans to rescue Eskom lie in doubling down on its coal-fired power plants, on…
A declaration on climate crisis, energy transition and extractivism in Latin America.
Social movements were organising their opposition to COP25 - in which those most affected by climate violence…
Πριν λίγες μέρες ανακοινώθηκε από την κυβέρνηση το Εθνικό Σχέδιο για την Ενέργεια και το Κλίμα. Παρουσιάζονται σε αυτό οι στόχοι και οι προκλήσεις για την μετάβαση της χώρας σε μία οικονομία χαμηλού…
Παρά την ολοένα αυξανόμενη ευαισθητοποίηση για το σοβαρότατο θέμα της κλιματικής αλλαγής, παρατηρείται, ακόμη, σημαντικό έλλειμμα σε εθνικό επίπεδο στην υιοθέτηση ολοκληρωμένων αλλά και πρακτικών…
Η Τουρκία, προωθώντας την παράνομη ΑΟΖ με Λιβύη, είναι βέβαιο ότι θα προχωρήσει και σε επόμενα βήματα, όπως αυτά έχουν ήδη προαναγγελθεί από τη στρατηγική της «Γαλάζιας Πατρίδας». Βρισκόμαστε μπροστά…
Global solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity is expected to exceed 8,000 Gigawatt (GW) by 2050, 18 times the current levels, according to an analysis by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
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-‘REN21 Renewables in Cities 2019 Global Status Report’ examines the role of cities in accelerating a transition to sustainable energy.
-The report emphasizes that cities are…
LONDON - Millions of people in southern and eastern Africa are facing emergency food insecurity partly caused by climate change, half of them children, according to the charity Save the Children. The…
Few would doubt that the transition to low carbon provides the renewables industry with a massive opportunity.
The challenges are not for the faint-hearted, however, as timescales accelerate,…
MADRID - During the 25th round of climate change negotiations starting today in Madrid, Spain, African civil society organisations will call on governments from both developing and developed nations…
MADRID - The number of people at risk of being forced from their homes by river flooding could surge to as many as 50 million a year by the end of the century if governments do not step up action to…
While still in its infancy, power-to-gas provides a promising approach to convert renewable power into “green” hydrogen and methane, furnishing the renewables sector with a potentially lucrative…
Using hydrogen as a clean fuel is an idea whose time may be coming. For Australia, producing hydrogen is alluring: it could create a lucrative new domestic industry and help the world achieve a…
Powerful hurricanes. Record-breaking heatwaves. Droughts that bring ruin to farmers. Raging forest fires. The mass die-off of the world's coral reefs. Food scarcity.
To avoid a climate change…